Lodge, Hillsborough Castle, The Square, Hillsborough, Co. Down, BT26 6AG

Gate screen and gate lodge to Hillsborough Castle (HB19/05/076A), lodge built c.1840, gate screen erected 1936, taken from Richhill Co.Armagh dated c.1745. Gate Lodge: Single-bay single-storey Neo-classical stone lodge with flat-roofed section to north, renovated in 1994 and 2007 with much stonework replaced. Square on plan facing south attached to the north end of gate screen. Pyramidal natural slate roof behind parapet wall (to south only) having lead ridges and surmounted by stone chimneystack. Red sandstone ashlar walling above projecting cornice complete with mutules. Principal south and east elevations have a large recess containing a square-headed window opening with 6/6 timber sash window and sandstone sill. West elevation abutted by rendered wall to front yard with pair of square-headed door openings having replacement timber doors. The interior has been extensively renovated with little original fabric. Gate Screen: Symmetrical arrangement of decorative Baroque wrought-iron gates and railings, set on a north-south axis supported on sandstone ashlar walls and terminated by tall rusticated piers, short screen walls and further pair of stone piers with timber vehicular gates. Pair of ornate wrought-iron gates hung on matching iron panels with elaborate overthrow bearing Richardson coat-of-arms surmounted by sword wielding arm. To either side is a lower matching iron railing on low sandstone ashlar wall terminated by pair of tall rusticated stone piers with corniced capstones. Main gates and railings in State Care (DOW 014:047). To either side is a red sandstone ashlar screen wall terminated to either end by pairs of timber panelled tall gates supported on sandstone piers with capstones. Gable to east wing of castle fronts onto The Square and has curved stone kerbing to north and small front lawn enclosed in iron railings to east. To east of lodge and south of guardhouse front garden area enclosed to The Square by spear-headed iron railing on low cement rendered redbrick wall with matching pedestrian gate and decorative iron lamp incorporated into railing. Setting: Forming the principal entrance to Hillsborough Castle, enclosing the front yard and fronting onto the west side of The Square. Roof Natural slate RWG N/A - concealed Walling Sandstone ashlar Windows Replacement timber sash